Quoting Guy Chapman aka JzG guy.chapman@spamcop.net:
On Fri, 09 Nov 2007 14:01:42 -0500, joshua.zelinsky@yale.edu wrote:
See for example at http://www.partiallyclips.com/forums/index.php?PHPSESSID=78b47d2cc544fd659e2... where Rob Balder responds to a polite attempt by Mindspillage to explain notability and a few other issues.
Bizarre. We have an article on PartiallyClips and it was never deleted.
Hi main beef was that we speedy deleted the initial version of the article about his more recent comic Erfworld. See http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log&page=Erfworld Quoting from a personal message to me "Erfworld was a "notable webcomic" from the moment it launched on the 5th highest traffic website in webcomics. It did NOT need the Time blog or Dragon Magazine cites to prove it. Any system for measuring notability which cannot accomodate an example like Erfworld is broken. The webcomics notability system has been intentionally broken by deletionists (one of whom speedy-deleted the original article)." - Now, I think he's wrong here (if I replaced "5th highest traffic website in webcomics" with ""5th highest traffic website in crocheting" we would immediately see this as ridiculous (although I find the initial claim a bit ridiculous to start with)). However, he may have, beyond all the invective (I've taken this comment out of a longer message with much profanity) he may have a point: if something looks like it is very likely going to be notable, there isn't much harm in waiting a few weeks. It will piss off fewer people and save us all time and effort.